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On January 20, 2025 President Trump signed Executive Order 14155: "Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program" Executive order. This executive order does the following: Entry into the United States of refugees under the USRAP be suspended. This suspension shall take effect at 12:01 am eastern standard time on January 27, 2025.
USRAP has no impact on illegal immigration, according to #AfghanEvac. Refugees must be vetted before entering the U.S., and crossing the border without authorization voids their eligibility.
The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...
The former dictated that the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) be suspended due to its detrimental effect on the country's interests. The latter order calls for increased vetting of all ...
VOLAG, sometimes spelled Volag or VolAg, is an abbreviation for "Voluntary Agency".This term refers to any of the nine U.S. private agencies and one state agency that have cooperative agreements with the State Department to provide reception and placement services for refugees arriving in the United States.
Refugee program suspended. Another order from Trump paused the U.S. refugee program, leaving the program under review for three months. The order calls for the Departments of Homeland Security and ...
“Many of us risked our lives to support the U.S. mission as interpreters, contractors, human rights defenders, and allies,” an advocacy group called Afghan USRAP Refugees — named after the U.S. refugee program — said in an open letter to Trump, members of Congress and human rights defenders.
Several U.S. refugee resettlement organizations asked a federal judge on Monday to restore the U.S. refugee program, arguing President Donald Trump's indefinite suspension is unlawful and is ...